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title: "Mastercard's federated architecture for agentic commerce"
url: "https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-federated-architecture/"
description: "Andrew Reiskind, CDO of Mastercard, explains why agentic commerce demands a federated architecture where context rules stay consistent across every platform."
keywords: "atlan, data governance, regovern 2025, regovern watch center"
---

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**Mastercard's Federated Architecture for Agentic Commerce** - a Re:Govern 2025 recording on the Atlan Re:Govern watch center, with Andrew Reiskind, Chief Data Officer (Mastercard). The recording plays for about 2 minutes, then the page asks for an email to keep watching. Watch it at https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-federated-architecture/.

## Speaker

- **Andrew Reiskind**, Chief Data Officer, Mastercard. Andrew spent 16+ years embedding privacy by design at Mastercard. Now he secures 160B+ AI-scanned transactions annually, proving governance accelerates innovation. He's building "Context by Design" for agentic commerce at Mastercard.

## Company: Mastercard

Mastercard processes billions of transactions globally, with AI now powering 1/3 of its products. 160B+ transactions scanned annually by AI-driven fraud detection. 2,000+ specialists advance data & AI innovation under Data Responsibility Principles.

## What's inside

As commerce evolves to agents buying on our behalf, the basic transaction data stays the same - but context explodes in complexity. Fraud detection, regulatory compliance, and customer trust all depend on context that must remain consistent across multiple data platforms, not siloed in each tool's governance layer.

Key takeaways:

- Agentic commerce doesn't change transaction data, but dramatically increases the context required around it
- Architecture matters: federated solutions ensure governance rules stay consistent across all platforms
- You can't have each platform doing its own thing - conflicting rules destroy trust at scale
- Context by design means building governance in from the start, not bolting it on at the end
- A metadata lakehouse approach provides flexibility to evolve as both commerce and fraud fighting innovate with agents

## More from Re:Govern 2025

- [CME Group: Context at Speed](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/cme-group-context-at-speed/) (Session Recordings)
- [Mastercard: Context by Design](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-context-by-design/) (Session Recordings)
- [Workday: Context as Culture](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-context-as-culture/) (Session Recordings)
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- [Workday's Learnings From its First Talk to Data experiment](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-talk-to-data-learnings/) (Highlights)
- [How Workday Connects Context Across Business Tools](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/how-workday-connects-context/) (Highlights)
- [How Mastercard Designs Context at Scale](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/how-mastercard-designs-context/) (Highlights)
- [How Protocols and Tools are Evolving for Agentic Governance](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/protocols-agentic-governance/) (Highlights)
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- [GitLab's Strategies for Building Reliable Conversational Analytics](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/gitlab-conversational-analytics-strategies/) (Highlights)
- [AI-Ready Tech Pioneers Share their Single Most Effective AI Readiness Strategies](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/ai-readiness-strategies-pioneers/) (Highlights)
- [GitLab's Learnings from its First Experiment with Conversational AI](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/gitlab-conversational-ai-learnings/) (Highlights)
- [Vimeo's Approach to Data Governance in the Era of Conversational Analytics](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/Vimeo-approach-to-data-governance/) (Highlights)
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- [Workday's Semantic Layer Strategy](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-semantic-layer-strategy/) (Highlights)
- [Modern Data & AI Governance Blueprint](https://atlan.com/blueprint) (Resources)

Back to the watch center: https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/